let's have another stephen king thread...

[petitfiloser]

he's the greatest

I also loved, 'The Dark Half' though less on re-reading than first time.

The Dark Tower is really, really not Sci Fi -honest!

I don't read any other 'horror' writers because I haven't found any good ones. I liked one of Dean K's but thought the others of his I read were dreadful. He is really samey and nowhere near as good on characterisation or even on pure CARE-appeal than King is - and he's got what I read as a major Christian-streak going on in his books which irritates me.

Clive Barker is a v.good horror writer - Imajica, Everville and The Great and Secret Show are all excellent and have the same kind of epic landscapes and evolving longer-term characters as King writes.

Remus I have given up on Koontz because of his fundie Christian Tea Party conservative crap too.

I find Clive Barker is either good or absolutely awful - Hated Imajica, loved Weaveworld, Coldheart Canyon is my favourite.

I haven't liked any of the Clive B's I've read - I gave him a chance and tried three but thought they were all equally bad. one was 'Weaveworld' and another was 'The Great And Secret Show.' can't remember the third but I think it may have been a sequel to one of the other two. And there may have been a monkey - or there was another world that was described as something like a carpet spread out in folds - but I may have invented all of those details!

And why aren't my capitals working properly? :)
And at 'Christian Tea Party' which is exactly right!

there is a monkey! he's in great and secret show - he lives in Tesla's head!

have you tried ray bradbury? Something Wicked This Way Comes is the most well known one.

Thank goodness the monkey wasn't just a figment of my insanity! :)

Pet Sematary? Made me cry...